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DREAMSEA Project No.:
DS 0062 00152
Institution:
HMML; DREAMSEA
Surrogate Format:
Digital
IIIF Manifest:
https://www.vhmml.org/image/manifest/627856
Country:
Laos
City (Province):
Luang Prabang
Name of collection:
Vat Manorom Sattharam
Right to Left?:
No
Current Status:
In situ
Sponsor:
Phaya Hua Khong
Subject matter:
Ānisaṃsa (maerit)
Copyist:
Anonymous
Copying date in native date:
CS 1284, a tao set year
Copying date in Gregorian:
1922
Place of copying:
Luang Prabang
Script:
Tham Lao
Writing support:
Palm leaf
Watermark?:
No
Countermark?:
No
Manuscript cover?:
Yes
Binding?:
No
Manuscript cover dimension:
58.0 x 4.8 cm
Manuscript paper dimension:
58.0 x 4.8 cm
Text block dimension:
47.5 x 3.6 cm
Number of pages:
30 pages
Number of blank pages:
3 pages
Rubrication?:
No
Illumination?:
No
Illustration?:
No
Manuscript condition:
Good
Description of manuscript content:
The content tells about making merit and dedicating the results of the merit to Devas and all beings. The dedication can include the merit that we had conducted in the previous lives and also sent to the creatures in the other worlds, who are in the misery places such as peta (hungry ghosts), sambhavesi (spirits are seeking birth) and asurakaya (demons).
Colophon:
ລານທີ່ 14 ໜ້າ 1: ໜັງສືການຊວ່າຍອຸທິດສະນີ້ ພະຍາຫົວຂອງ ມີສັດທາໄດ້ສ້າງໄວ້ ເພື່ອປະໂຍຊະນະຕໍ່ໄປຂ້າງໜ້າ ໄດ້ສຳເລັດເມື່ອນະວັນຈັນ ເດືອນຫົກ ຂຶ້ນຫົກຄ່ຳ ປີເຕົ່າເສັດ ຈຸນລະສັງກາດ 1284. Folio 14 on the recto side: This manuscript, Phaya Huakhong had the religious to sponsor the making of this manuscript entitled Kan Swai Uthitsa, in order to be the benefit for the future. The writing of this manuscript was finished on Monday, on the sixth day of the waxing moon of the sixth lunar month, a tao set year, CS 1284 .
Item 1 - Title in Native script:
ມະຫາສຸວັນນະຊ່ວາຍຖວາຍກອງບຸນ
Item 1 - Title in Roman script:
Mahā suvanna xwai thwai kòṅbun
Item 1 - Title in English script:
Great gold of suffering alm
Item 1 - Author:
Anonymous
Item 1 - Language:
Lao; Pali
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